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    Authors
    Žegarac, Vladimir
    Issue Date
    2006-09-22
    Subjects
    causal efficacy
    orientation towards positive outcomes
    context
    underdeterminacy
    relevance
    pragmatics
    
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    Abstract
    The gap between the linguistic meaning of an utterance and the proposition it expresses in a particular context is bridged by a pragmatic inferential process with free access to general world knowledge. Therefore, pragmatic theory should be able to characterize the inputs to this inference process in a way which provides the basis for explaining why a particular linguistic expression has some contextual interpretations to the exclusion of others. The main aim of this paper is to consider how Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995) rises to this challenge in one particular case: utterances of sentences containing the phrase believe in. I try to show how the various interpretations of this expression follow from the interaction of its linguistic meaning with the Communicative Principle of Relevance, the context, and two general cognitive tendencies in context selection: the orientation towards positive outcomes and the orientation towards establishing cause-effect relations.
    Citation
    Žegarac V (2006) 'Believing in: a pragmatic account', Lingua, 116 (10), pp.1703-1721.
    Publisher
    Elsevier
    Journal
    Lingua
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623673
    DOI
    10.1016/j.lingua.2006.02.005
    Additional Links
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384106000957
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    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0024-3841
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.lingua.2006.02.005
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